barrowlass opened this issue on Sep 13, 2005 ยท 8 posts
barrowlass posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 8:21 AM
Like most people when starting with Poser I use edit>General Preferences to get the startup I want, in my case - no figure and with different elements in certain locations in the screen.
On checking Prefs folder I discovered the attached item - ringed in the example and suspected that this maybe the cause of the Parse Error problem. I deleted the item with the P6 icon and everything is ok in that respect. The only thing is, I have to re-set up my favoured UI each time I open P6 which is something of a pain.
Any help would be welcomed. Would installing SR1 help?
Thanks
My aspiration: to make a decent Poser Render I'm an Oldie, a goldie, but not a miracle worker :-)
Angel1 posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 8:34 AM
bevans84 posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 9:00 AM
After setting up your preferred state and saving it as your preferred state, is preferredState.pz3 being saved in your "prefs" folder? If not, I would try "save as" into that folder after insuring that compressed files are turned off. SR1 couldn't hurt.
barrowlass posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 9:05 AM
Thanks will try that - never had this problem with P4PP/P5! However, the pic shows the contents of my prefs folder so I don't know what else I can do.
My aspiration: to make a decent Poser Render I'm an Oldie, a goldie, but not a miracle worker :-)
xantor posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 10:01 AM
If you have file extensions switched off in windows you should switch them back on. Poser makes a pz3 called preferred state when you set your own preferences and that is probably the file that you deleted. (It will be a pzz if you have file compression on)
barrowlass posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 10:11 AM
Hi Xantor - it is a pz3 file. I haven't deleted it this time, just set my preferred state, saved it to prefs folder with the name "1" as a sort of test. I don't have file compression on. I'll see if this will solve the problem. When I do get a parse error warning, if I click OK, I can carry on working - P6 doesn't shut down. I'd just like to have things running "normally" - wouldn't we all? ;-)
My aspiration: to make a decent Poser Render I'm an Oldie, a goldie, but not a miracle worker :-)
xantor posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 11:05 AM
To save it to work as the preferred state it will have to have the name preferredstate.pz3 so that poser knows what it is.
barrowlass posted Tue, 13 September 2005 at 11:07 AM
ok thanks for that, Xantor
My aspiration: to make a decent Poser Render I'm an Oldie, a goldie, but not a miracle worker :-)